GREAT BRITAIN: Progenitor of Mice

Both Laborites and Tories agreed that Britain must spend less money, but the
Labor government had the painful task of showing how to do it.

In the conference room overlooking the back garden at No. 10 Downing
Street, Prime Minister Attlee conferred endlessly with his cabinet.
Everyone thought the other fellow's expenses could be cut, but did not
see how his own department could struggle along on any less. Foreign
Minister Bevin wanted to cut social services, Health Minister Aneurin
Bevan insisted that his housing and health plans were "sacrosanct."
Attlee tried to...